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<p align="center"><span class="style5"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>4cast
#75: Plugins, Copyright, Taxes, Biblioblogs</b><br>
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">October 9, 2007</span></p>
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<p class="style4">This week’s <em>4cast</em><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1.<strong> Plug Your Catalog into
Firefox</strong></span></p>
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<p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugin" target="_blank">plugin</a>
is a small computer program that adds a specific, sometimes rather
nifty, function to another computer program. Mozilla, the makers of the
<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox
web browser</a>, actively encourages its users to develop new plugins
(called "<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/"
target="_blank">Add-ons</a>"
in their parlance), thus extending their products' usefulness.
Libraries are starting to develop plugins that add their own catalogs
to the search bar built into Firefox, which in turn allows patrons to
search the catalog without having to navigate the library's website. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2007/10/a-challenge-bui.html"
target="_blank">A challenge: build a Firefox search box for your
online book finding system</a> (Superpatron - Friends of the Library,
for the net)</li>
<li><a
href="http://alreadygone.blogspot.com/2007/10/search-your-librarys-catalog-from.html"
target="_blank">Search your library's catalog from the Firefox Search
Bar</a> (Chronicles of Bean)</li>
<li><a
href="http://library20.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=515108%3ABlogPost%3A48442"
target="_blank">Creating a custom LibX plugin for Firefox</a> (Library
2.0) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.oplin.org/home.php?v=3" target="_blank">Try
OPLIN's OneSearch Plugin</a> (OPLIN News)</li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2.<strong> Your Copyright is No Good
Here </strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> is
still the land of copyright anarchy, but perhaps not for long. Google
is trying to clean things up with <a
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/latest-content-id-tool-for-youtube.html"
target="_blank">a new tool</a>
designed to help identify copywritten material. At the same time, some
are suggesting that Google, instead of pandering to the forces of
online censorship, needs to use its growing power to push for changes
in the way digital copyright works. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/youtube-tries-a-little-harder-to-protect-copyright-holders/"
target="_blank">YouTube Tries a Little Harder to Protect Copyright
Holders</a> (TechCrunch)</li>
<li> <a
href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000972.html"
target="_blank">YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie</a> (Coding Horror)</li>
<li><a
href="http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/10/16/googleright.html"
target="_blank">Googleright</a> (The Shifted Librarian) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/02/censorship"
target="_blank">Online censorship hurts us all</a> (Guardian Unlimited)</li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3.<strong> Give Me Liberty or Give Me
Internet Taxes</strong></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p>The <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act"
target="_blank">1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act</a>,
which bars the government from taxing Internet access, is set to lapse
on November 1st. Federal, state, and local governments see the 'Net as
a potentially huge source of tax revenue, but proponents of a tax-free
Internet (pretty much everyone else) see the Act as an important piece
in bridging the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide"
target="_blank">digital divide</a> and want to make the ban permanent.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/10/internet-tax-fr.html"
target="_blank">Internet Tax Freedom Act - think about this</a>
(LibrarianInBlack) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbpp.org/9-11-07sfp.htm" target="_blank">The
Internet Tax Freedom Act and the "Digital Divide"</a> & <a
href="http://www.cbpp.org/7-11-07sfp.htm" target="_blank">Making the
"Internet Tax Freedom Act" Permanent Could Lead to a Substantial
Revenue Loss for States and Localities</a> (Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities) </li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071011-extension-of-internet-access-tax-ban-passes-house-committee.html"
target="_blank">Extension of Internet access tax ban passes House
subcommittee</a> (Ars Technica)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/11/House-panel-votes-to-extend-Net-tax-ban_1.html"
target="_blank">House panel votes to extend Net tax ban</a> (InfoWorld)</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<strong> Who's Biblioblogging? </strong></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Meredith Farkas recently concluded her <a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/09/04/2007-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-index-of-results/"
target="_blank">2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere</a> and has made
the results available on her blog, <a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php"
target="_blank">Information Wants To Be Free</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/09/04/2007-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-demographics/">2007
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/09/07/2007-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-blog-demographics/">2007
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/10/10/2007-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-attitudes-and-behaviors/">2007
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/10/10/2007-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-results-from-various-filters/">2007
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from Various Filters</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/08/25/interesting-facts-from-the-survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-2007/">Interesting
Facts from the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere 2007</a></li>
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